you know what i don’t see enough of? circus kid dick grayson critiquing the joker because he’s a bad clown. not like, bad, and also a clown. but bad at being a clown. i want to see dick grayson taking the existence of this horrible clown very personally as a matter of professional pride. he has known clowns, and you, sir, are no clown. the joker is an insult to the legacy of emmett kelly and this shall not stand.
“Sir, you are no clown! Your slapstick is shoddy, your prat falls are practically nonexistent, and you have NO sense of comedic timing! Do you even have ANY idea what type of clown you’re trying to pull off? Are you a Straight Whiteface, or a Grotesque Whiteface? Because you have no commitment to character that I can see! You can’t just slap on some makeup and call yourself a clown. There’s a proud history to be upheld! I BET YOU NEVER EVEN GOT A DEGREE FROM CLOWN COLLEGE!!!”
*Joker and henchmen stare in shocked silence as Dick continues his rant*
#Joker changes his rivalry from Batman to Nightwing because he’s so offended
#Dick storms into Arkham and stomps down the halls to Joker’s cell
“AND ANOTHER THING!”
Highkey here for this.
DRAG HIS FAKE CLOWN ASS
Dick Grayson losing it entirely one evening, and speed dialing everyone in Young Justice and Justice League, telling them to bring themselves, make up remove, a change of clothes, and a willingness to learn. He texts the address to a warehouse, and a few hours later, the Justice Clown Posse rolls out in a suspiciously small car in pursuit of putting Joker into retirement.
Just wish to point that actual Emmet Kelly played at least
one villainous-clown role in a movie (The
Fat Man, 1951), and he was a proper circus clown who was also evil.
Mooncustafer 